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Many years ago, one of Atlanta’s more affluent neighborhoods had a Christmas decorating contest. A committee of residents made their rounds to judge the best Christmas decorations. The neighbors tried to outdo one another, and the decision for first place was not easy.

The last 10 days have become a blur due to a reoccurring illness. A year ago I was rushed to the hospital, down three pints of blood. We thought we had the matter under control but last week , I was rushed there again down two pints of blood.

There is a word in the English language that has become so offensive, so distasteful, and so abhorrent that it is seldom used in conversation today. This word, at one time in this nation, was a common word sometimes used as a slur and sometimes as a descriptive word.

Have you already lost that holiday cheer this year? Was hosting Thanksgiving just too much work? Are you beat down to the point that you’re just thankful all the family has gone so you can clean up the mess left behind? Tired of all the commercialization surrounding this time of the year?

If I lived in a liberal bastion, instead of conservative Fayette County, I might be risking friendships and other types of backlash by openly admitting I voted for Donald Trump. Lack of tolerance on the left has a long history.

You won’t believe the troubles I am facing. Where to start? First, my housekeeper quit. She decided my rural estate was proving to be too much of a drive for her. I was already paying her a stipend for travel, but now I have to go to the trouble of finding a replacement for her. I hate that.

Three years ago when Republicans were battling President Obama over the debt ceiling and a government shutdown, the president said, “You don’t like a particular policy or a particular president? Then argue for your position. Go out there and win an election.”

It is a solid friendship of two like-minded Southerners that started in, of all places, a high-end restaurant in Beverly Hills. This was several years before I would meet my future husband who was working in an office a couple of miles up the street.

Donald Trump’s surprise win has millions of Americans, many of whom are black, in a tizzy. Many, such as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, are writing about what it means to be black during a Trump administration even though Trump’s presidency has yet to begin.